After Saturday night’s 2-0 road loss to the Colorado Rapids, Chivas USA defender Bobby Burling said that the Red-and-White’s current winless streak is a difficult stretch the team is going through. Burling, who was part of last year’s squad, has been through tough patches with the team before, but says that the squad keeping team unity is the way of producing the results they're searching for.

“It’s only the people in the locker room that can change it,” said Burling. “It’s us together and we’re trying to push forward in this thing as much as the next person. We’ve got to stay together, we’ve got to keep fighting for each other and hopefully along the way we’ll get some bounces.”

The Rapids took an early lead in tonight’s match at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Atiba Harris’ goal in the 11th minute, causing the Rojiblancos to have to play from behind. The Goats generated a number of key threats at goal in their rematch with their Western Conference rival, but could not capitalize. Burling nearly equalized the match for his side in the 17th minute off a corner kick, but his header attempt bounced just wide left of the post.

The Rebaño Angelino now have two days before jumping right back into competition, as they will travel on Tuesday to Titan Stadium on the campus of Cal State Fullerton to face the L.A. Blues in their opening match of the 2013 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup starting at 7:30 p.m. (PT). Burling was not part of last year’s squad that made a run to the Semifinals for the second time in club history, but he sees it as an opportunity to build team confidence going forward in MLS play.

“I think we’ve got to look at it as a new season” Burling added.”Really turn the page as far as getting our confidence back and getting our togetherness back and really getting some confidence coming out of that game. Our mentality doesn’t change. We’re still going to go in and want to be fighting for every ball.”